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An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

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vLLM x Novita AI: Chord, Faster INT4 MoE for Kimi K2.x. Up to 1.3x on H200, 2.15x on Untuned B300

09.15

Novita AI has open-sourced Chord, a high-performance W4A16 MoE CUDA kernel for Kimi K2.x serving shapes, with a Humming-compatible indexed path and grouped SM90 operators.

Open weights performance quantization moe hardware

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